| Do pipefish and seahorse males have complete confidence of paternity, as might be expected given their involved parental care? |
| Entirely encrusted with corals, Mawali is a lively reef, sheltering huge scorpionfish, nudibranchs, sweepers, flower groupers, lionfish and harlequin ghost pipefish. |
| But Madagascar isn't entirely mantas and sharks, crabs and pipefish. |
| In a kind of pipefish, a large pouch for retention of the eggs is formed on the belly of the female. |
| This approach has been successfully used in a sex-role reversed population of the broad-nosed pipefish, Syngnathus typhle. |
| Sangeang's reefs host a rare variety of pygmy seahorses, as well as frogfish, ghost pipefish, flatworms and of course, nudibranchs. |
